"All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being."                                                                                                                                      

  (Kurt Vonnegut)

For your enlightenment and thoughtful entertainment:

Clary Antome presents a non-exhaustive list of fictional texts that have explored human reality in its usual mixture of conflict, squalor and confusion !

If you’re looking for glimpses of life on this planet, try reading:

Saul Bellow Dangling Man

Albert Camus The Stranger

Anton Cekhov Uncle Vanya

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Journey to the End of Night

Edmundo Desnoes Inconsolable Memories

Annie Ernaux Cleaned Out

Gustave Flaubert Bouvard and Pécuchet

Hans J.C. Von Grimmelshausen The Adventurous Simplicissimus

Franz Kafka The Castle

Henry de Montherlant The Bachelors

Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar

Jean Rhys  Voyage in the Dark

                     Quartet

                     After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea

Hans-Ulrich Treichel Lost

Voltaire Candide

Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions